Chi-tai , Xu 1984.09.03 Taipei
/WorkOZAKIVERSE.com (ID) 2012.10 - 2013.05hoomia headphone (ID) 2013.10 - 2015.05
/EducationTatung University Industrial Design BATamkang University Architecture 2 years
/Award & Exhibition2009 IF design concept award (nominated)2010 Young Designers’ Exhibition
/CapabilityDesign Strategy.Design research. Idea brainstorming.Idea sketch.Product 3D modeling.Wooden furniture making.
Client // hoomiaMaterial // Alumium, Plastic
In the year 2014. I had been asked to find a new design language for the next product generation. It was a chance to re-design the metal earbuds for hoomia. I start from the old S1 earphone. The S1’s sound quality was nice, but the housing was a little bit long for the ear. Every time I wear S1 during running or motorcycling. It was easily be pull out of my ear. So we started thinking about make the length shorter. The new idea start from the sphere, the most intuit shape we learned from our nature environment. Than I add some character with a 45 degree cutting to distinguished the upper side and the down side. The down side finally melt into a “holder” with SR. Like a hand holding a ball. The back of sphere was cutting into a flat area with logo. Then after that, I am thinking about the sound quality. The sound quality of the opened earphone will be better than the closed one because the pressure of the bass sound can be released with the hole in the back. So that I added a horn hole on the the back which I often saw in the Hi-end speakers. It makes the earphone got more character but also functional. But when the horn hole was added. I still feel it was not elegant enough. Too many details. So that I start trying to modify the SR, turn it 90 degree. Now the SR looks like a handle of hairdryer. This makes the earbuds more comfortable to wear, because the SR is now a little bit far from the ear and dodges from the "anti-tragus”.
In-ear Buds
Client // hoomiaMaterial // Alumium, Plastic
Nowadays, people enjoy listening to the music which has strong bass line and punchy beats by using their smart phone or tablet. Because of that, we choose the in-ear buds then plug them into our ears. Turn the volume higher to isolate from the environment noise. But we just ignore that this may hurts our auditory system. After a long tern, our auditory acuity will becoming weakness, called ''Hearing Impaired''. The Hollow Ears is trying to solve this problem by referring the old time design-- the earphone. We made the sound output from two units, the small one is for middle and treble sound, and the bigger one is for the bass sound. Then we housing these two unit into a 17-millimeter-diameter hollow aluminum ring with a transparent plastic cap. Finally we boost the bass sound a little bit, so you still can immerse in the punchy music you like.
Hollow Ears
Client // hoomiaMaterial // Alumium, Plastic
W2 is a modular headphone that consumers can freely assemble and replace. Its mission is to create per-sonalized headphones that best fit everyone’s needs. Every component of W2 is changeable, from sound modules, housings, to headbands and earpads. Consumers can have what they need in styles, sounds and comforty all in one headphone. Furthermore, they also can renew their headphones constantly, by buying or even sharing certain components with friends. The headphones we buy today, are usually sold in entire set, rather than separate parts. For example, consumers often got the ideal sound quality without ideal shape. Finally, if consumer dislike any part of headphones, they are prone to dispose the entire product. W2 is just the first example of modular sound devices. We hope to gather more manufacturers to follow the idea, so that consumers can have more choices for modules, and enjoy freedom of creating their very own headphones.
Moduler Headphone
Reading SerenelyeReader redesignMaterial // Plastic, Glass
"I think scrolling is distraction of reading." When I first using my new iPad, trying to read articles on it. I found that my eyes start feeling uncomfortable, and my finger started feeling pain. Trying to figure out for a while and I realize that it is because I scrolling all the time. When scrolling, finger moves for a long length, and eyes have to staring at the text line which I am going to read from the top of every pages. So I think why not going back to the original way ---- reading book. I finally found that when we reading a book, we don't move the finger frequently, we just "swing" it then flip to the next page. So I designed the "Reading Serenely" eReader, with Eink display panel, and unique control botton, it makes you just like reading a book. Swing your thumb to flip forward or back, slide up and down to choose the book or other functions.
The furniture-like bluetooth speaker.Material // Canada cypress wood. Laser cutting.
fonoco is simplification from "phonic + holic", referring to the sound addict who loves music and life. Unlike most mass-production's icy appearance, we focus on designing the furniture-like audio equipment with natural materials, in order to comply with home scenarios. Makes the natu-ral sound reflecting from the natural appearance. People love reading. Fonoco has always try to integrated reading and listening closely , provid-ing you with an elegant music playback equipment to your leisure reading time.Nowadays people are not just reading books, but many opportunities to read e-books, e-maga-zine, websites digest. So the bluetooth wireless technology can help you quickly and easily con-nect your smart phone such as iPhone and iPad, then play music by the speaker.
